SEC Whistleblower Archives

Compliance Personnel, Auditors, Officers and Directors Can Obtain SEC Whistleblower Awards

Many key compliance personnel, including internal auditors, external auditors, officers, and directors may incorrectly assume that they are not eligible for awards under the SEC Whistleblower Program. In certain … Continued

A Tale of Two Whistleblowers: Lessons Learned from December 2016 SEC Whistleblower Award

On December 5, 2016, the SEC issued an award determination resolving two whistleblowers’ claims based on the same action against the same entities. One whistleblower … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Dallas Hammer Quoted About SEC Whistleblower Program

A Bloomberg BNA article titled SEC Whistle-Blower Awards: No Guarantees quotes SEC whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer’s insights about factors that cause an SEC whistleblower reward claim to succeed or fail. … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Quoted in National Law Journal About SEC Whistleblower Program

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Notes Success of SEC Whistleblower Program An article in the National Law Journal titled “Could Donald Trump’s SEC Soften Enforcement of Severance … Continued

New Administration Should Avoid Gutting the SEC’s Remarkably Successful Whistleblower Reward Program

Press reports indicate that a repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act is among the top policy priorities of the Trump Administration. Though there are provisions in … Continued

Whistleblower Firm Zuckerman Law Named a Tier 1 Firm by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2017

U.S. News and Best Lawyers® have named Zuckerman Law a Tier 1 firm in Litigation – Labor and Employment in the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 2017 edition “Best Law Firms.” … Continued

SEC Advocates Broad Construction of Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protection Provision

SEC Advocates Broad Construction of Whistleblower Protection Provision in Dodd-Frank Act The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) continues to advocate a broad … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Lawyer Will Speak at Webinar About Whistleblower Investigations

Whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman, Principal of Washington, DC firm whistleblower firm Zuckerman Law, will speak at a Rossdale webinar on October 26th about whistleblower investigations. … Continued

Whistleblower Lawyer Zuckerman Will Speak at ABA Panel About Recent Developments in Whistleblower Protection Law

Whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman, Principal of Washington, DC firm whistleblower firm Zuckerman Law, will speak at the November 2016 ABA Annual Labor and Employment Law … Continued

SOX Whistleblower Lawyer Zuckerman Will Speak at Employment Law Conference About SOX Whistleblower Protections

SOX whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman will speak at the Florida Bar’s Hot Topics in Employment Law conference about recent developments in SOX. Zuckerman will address … Continued

SEC Whistleblower Turns Down $8.25M Whistleblower Award

Eric Ben-Artzi, a former risk officer at Deutsche Bank, blew the whistle on colleagues’ fraudulently inflating the value of the bank’s portfolio of credit … Continued

Whistleblower Disclosures to Federal Agencies Are Protected Under the Work Product Doctrine

Magistrate Judge Nita Stormes’ ruling in BofI Federal Bank v. Erhart suggests that the attorney work product doctrine can protect whistleblowers’ confidential disclosures to government … Continued

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